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by mellavora 1538 days ago
You could work on improving your handwriting. You might notice other benefits.

I read about one person whose math comprehension increased dramatically when they improved their penmanship; something about a mental link between the ability to visualize the formulas in their mind and the ability to create/visualize them on paper.

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I'm not the OP, but I'm on a similar situation.

I can draw formulas quite well. I can also draw text quite well if I'm drawing it. But my cursory handwriting is so bad that I often can't read it.

I don't think it's worth putting time into improving it on the case I need to write some long-form text by hand. There just isn't enough value int there. (But then, here I am, spending time on HN...)

Not OP. I don't see how handwriting is better. I'm already working on the laptop, notepad app is almost integrated with everything else, I can access it in miliseconds with keyboard shortcuts. I can create a similar list in a simple notepad app, i.e.:

x Task 1

x Task 2

- Task 3

- Task 4

Very true. I have been thinking of getting a white board. Thanks for the encouragement.